When my husband first told me about geocaching my first reaction was, 'geo what?'... he explained to me that it was a treasure hunt game literally played on a global field... intriguing to say the least...
A cache, or container, is filled with special trinkets (mainly small knick-knacks, odds and ends, bits and baubles or dollar store fodder), then is hidden in a secret location... the hider tracks the caches' geo location coordinates using a hand-held GPS unit then uploads the information to the Geocaching website...
Geocachers then download coordinates from the geocaching site onto their hand-held units and start looking... it's as simple as that!
The difficulty levels range from 1 being a nice stroll to 5 which could involve rock climbing, canoeing or anything else that's more adventuresome...
As a family of hikers, this just adds a whole new dimension to something we already enjoy doing together...
Check it out... there are literally thousands upon thousands of hidden caches worldwide just waiting to be discovered, who knows, one could be right outside your back door...
This picture is of a dead tree on one of our hikes...
Happy hunting... ;)
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